Hedge Pruning a Trident Maple

[johng]

I just looked up this technique and found an interesting long thread which appeared to get pretty heated. Read through part of it and found his blog page about it. Something to consider as it actually makes sense vs reading about alternative techniques including pinching etc. one thing I’m not sure about this technique is if it applies to smaller developing trees or just larger ones to build ramification. Will continue to read about this.

It is typically more of a refinement technique...so that means your trunk and primary branches are already where you want them.

 

[BonsaiMatt]

If you start doing some wound maintenance now and plan out your root grafts this can be a very nice tree.

I’m considering filing the wounds with epoxy and trying to get them healed. But then again, I kinda enjoy them and they add to the naturalistic feel on this tree.

What do people think? Fill them in or leave them as uro?

 

[shohin_branches]

I’m considering filing the wounds with epoxy and trying to get them healed. But then again, I kinda enjoy them and they add to the naturalistic feel on this tree.

What do people think? Fill them in or leave them as uro?

I personally wouldn't use epoxy. Just use a sharp knife to clean up and re-open the scars and cover with cutpaste so the tree can heal over it.

 

[BonsaiMatt]

I personally wouldn't use epoxy. Just use a sharp knife to clean up and re-open the scars and cover with cutpaste so the tree can heal over it.

I would need to fill them with epoxy to have any hope of healing over. I carved them out with a dremel a few years ago, so they are pretty deep hollows (see post #13).

 

[ForrestW]

Just my taste, -- on this particular tree I would leave them.

 

[BobbyLane]

I’m considering filing the wounds with epoxy and trying to get them healed. But then again, I kinda enjoy them and they add to the naturalistic feel on this tree.

What do people think? Fill them in or leave them as uro?

I would keep the hollows. It looks like you used ink in them in the first images, which im not keen on, it looks contrived, but it looks to have lightened up in the photos after. In the past where I used ink, ive always ended up carving out the stain and burning it instead with a pen torch.

But I suppose youre now going to show us the tree a few years on, with the scars healed over right?